Killer Eludes Police

DIGEST

January 9, 1998|Staff reports

For four days, convicted killer Jesse Hamilton Adams, has eluded some of South Florida's most experienced law enforcement officers.

A task force of 30 officers from several state and local agencies has been following up on tips phoned in from as far as New York and Illinois, said Special Agent Richard Dees of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

Dees said there were multiple confirmed sightings of Adams in the Mobil County area of southwest Alabama on Thursday.

Adams, 33, was serving two life sentences for the robbery and stabbing death of a Boca Raton attorney in 1992. He escaped from the Dade Correctional Institution in Florida City on Monday morning. He was last seen driving a dark 1989 Cadillac with a gray top and mirror-tinted windows, with license tag WCC25G. In the Alabama sightings, Adams was seen driving a Cadillac matching that description.

Anyone with information about Adams should contact the Florida Department of Law Enforcement at 305-470-5500, Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS or their local police department. A $6,000 reward is offered for information leading to the arrest and filing of criminal charges against Adams.